"In my mind, it's clear. You have to be a qualified voter on Election Day. I don't know how someone can say you're a qualified voter if you're deceased."

- South Dakota Secretary of State Chris Nelson, talking about the rule of several states that if a resident fills out an early mail-in ballot and dies before the day votes are tallied, the deceased person's ballot will not count.

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"The public will get to see these guys flown in on a multimillion-dollar aircraft, just like you see on TV. Basically, they're going to be given a mission and they're going to have to try and accomplish that mission, moving tactically through the woods, trying to capture the flag, if you will, without getting shot."

- Sgt. 1st Class Jade Nelson of the North Dakota National Guard, talking about the role being played today by civilian volunteers competing with Guard members, all armed with paintball guns. They're clashing at Kimball Bottoms.

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"The chain of command for nuclear execution is directly from the national command authority - the president and the secretary of defense - directly to the executing commanders. We were in a pressure cooker environment where we were constantly imbued with the feeling that everything we did with nuclear weapons had consequences. If I had to do it again, knowing what I know about nuclear winter, I wouldn't be able to go to war."

- Richard Fuller, who in the late 1970s was a captain in the Air Force and an executing commander in charge of Minutemen III missiles with nuclear warheads, in silos in eastern North Dakota.

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"(The Ford Model T) had a very high ground clearance. It was easy to repair. It was so inexpensive that isolation on the American farm came to an end."

- John Heitmann, who teaches courses in automotive history at the University of Dayton. Ford Motor Co. is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Model T - as much as Ford is able to celebrate anything right now, with the state and future of the company the way it is.

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"I saw that total evolution of what the bullpen was to what it became. I think the closers today are so dominant in that role that people kind of forgot what we used to do, the number of innings we pitched, the jams that we used to come in to. Now it takes three guys to do what we used to do."

- Rich "Goose"Gossage, 57, talking about his time in Major League baseball, in anticipation of being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. A relief pitcher, Gossage began with the Chicago White Sox and ended with the Seattle Mariners in 1994. He ranks third in all time for wins in relief and innings pitched in relief.